Day out with Thomas the Train

My 30th birthday fell on Friday of Memorial Day weekend this year. We had a busy day planned. In the morning Colin, Audrey, and I went to the park with our neighbor Jill and her daughter Sonya. She is just 7 months older than Colin. We had fun. The kids didn't really play "together" but they each had fun.

Paul found online that Thomas the Train was coming to town. Out in Heber there is a train that you can go for rides on. Thomas goes on tour and came to Heber. They bring a Thomas engine and hook it to the train and take kids for rides on Thomas. Colin has started to really like trains so we decided to take him. It was in town Thurs-Mon on Memorial Day weekend. We decided to go on Friday, we figured it would be one of the less crowded days.

It ended up not being a very nice weather day. It was really windy. It didn't rain and wasn't too cold but the wind was really strong. When we pulled in we couldn't believe that we barely found a parking spot. It was sooo crowded! We just barely made it on the train before it took off and we got a couple of the last seats left. It was completely full.

Colin was really excited to be riding the train. It just went straight down a track for 15 minutes and then came back. It doesn't go anywhere scenic, it is just through fields and people's back yards.

Here is Colin and Paul on the train



Colin, Audrey and I on the train


After we got off the ride the other train came. Paul took Colin to watch it pull in. Colin got really afraid of the train because it was coming right towards him. As it passed it whistled and it was really loud. Colin was really scared. Since then he has been talking about the "loud choo choo".


Here is Colin and I with the Thomas engine. We could have stood in line for 15 minutes to get a professional picture that you had to pay for. We just did this picture instead.



They had a whole bunch of things going on there. There was a tent with train tables that Colin played in for awhile. They had a guy doing a music show and this is Colin playing the tambourines.


Colin wasn't too happy to pose with Thomas


We gave Colin cotton candy for the first time while we were there. He didn't trust us and was really hesitant to try it but once he did he loved it. We had to hurry up and eat it so that it would be "all gone".





We went out to dinner in Heber afterwards. We just went to a little local diner place.

This is Colin telling us what a monkey says


Paul and Audrey at dinner


Overall it was a pretty good trip. It was super crowded and the weather wasn't good but it was worth it because Colin had a lot of fun. I thought for sure that he was going to pass out on the hour drive home but he stayed awake.